大鱼 Big Fish (2003) Movie Script

杰瑞发布于2023-11-21

爱德华（伊万·麦克格雷格 Ewan McGregor 饰）生性热爱自由，成年之后，他选择离开家乡，踏上了环游世界的旅程。一路上，爱德华遇见了各种各样稀奇古怪的角色，经历了无数精彩绝伦的的冒险，而他日后最大的兴趣，就是向他人喋喋不休的重复讲述他的这一段奇幻旅程。　　威尔（比利·克鲁德普 Billy Crudup 饰）是爱德华的儿子，他并不相信父亲所讲述的那些光怪陆离的故事，甚至对此感到无比厌烦。婚后，他同父亲中断了联系，一晃眼就是数年过去。当再次得到爱德华的消息之时，威尔才知道父亲即将不久于人世，他决定去见爱德华最后一面。然而，这一次，威尔终于发现了隐藏在这些故事背后的奥秘和真相。 When Edward Bloom (Albert Finney) becomes ill, his son, William (Billy Crudup), travels to be with him. William has a strained relationship with Edward because his father has always told exaggerated stories about his life, and William thinks he's never really told the truth. Even on his deathbed, Edward recounts fantastical anecdotes. When William, who is a journalist, starts to investigate his father's tales, he begins to understand the man and his penchant for storytelling.

JENNY:
The first thing you have to understand, is that your father never meant to endup here. And yet he did, twice. The first time, he was early. The second time, he was late.
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INT. EDWARD’S CAR / DRIVING - NIGHT It’s late, and Edward is pensive.
JENNY (V.O.) Those days, your father was working forhimself. If there was one thing youcould say about Edward Bloom, it’s thathe was a social person, and people tooka liking to him. One night he wasreturning from three weeks on the road, when he hit a thunderstorm unlike anyin his life.
The first raindrops hit the windshield. Edward turns on the wipers.
INT. EDWARD’S CAR - NIGHT - [THE STORM] Suddenly, a deluge descends. It’s not even rain anymore -- there’s no space between the drops. It’s like being caughtin a waterfall. It’s that loud.
No choice, Edward stops the car. Puts on the handbrake.
Just as suddenly, the sound changes -- no longer pounding, but softly SPLASHING. The world is close and echoing, because - EXT. EDWARD’S CAR - NIGHT -- the car is underwater. The tires are still on the road, but where there used to be air is water.
Three catfish swim in front of his headlights.
INT. THE CAR - NIGHT Realizing his plight, Edward tries to remain calm. Water is trickling in through the crack between the window and thedoor, but very slowly. For now, he’s fine.
That’s when he sees her -- The Girl in the River.
She’s swimming outside the car. While we never see her face exactly, she remains just as beautiful, just as mysterious, as the first time we saw her.
She puts her hand to the windshield. He puts his up to meethers. And smiles.
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EXT. FIELD BY DIRT ROAD - DAY It’s morning, and the sun shines brightly. Birds CHIRP.
Trees drip and the grass shines, still wet from last night’srain.
Edward gathers the clothes that have spilled out of hissuitcase, which broke open when he dropped it from HIS CAR, which balances precariously ten feet up in an elm tree. As Edward gathers his last pair of socks, he notices a shinypiece of metal sticking out of the dirt. He pulls it out, rubs it off.
It’s a key. It’s the Key to the City he lost years ago.
JENNY (V.O.) Fate has a way of circling back on aman, and taking him by surprise.
EXT. ROAD - DAY Carrying his busted suitcase, a tired Edward walks toward aone-street town in the distance. We pass a rusty sign... “Welcome to Spectre.” EXT. MAIN STREET - DAY Amazed and disbelieving, Edward walks down the center of theroad, no cars coming from either direction. He looks up tofind his faded shoes still dangling from the power line, along with the rest of the town’s.
JENNY (V.O.) A man sees things differently atdifferent times in his life. This town didn’t seem the same now that he was older.
EXT. TOWN OF SPECTRE - VARIOUS SHOTS We look around the town, on and off Main Street. There are “FOR SALE” signs in many of the windows JENNY (V.O.) A new road had brought the outsideworld to Spectre, and with it, banks, liens and debt. Almost everywhere youlooked, people were bankrupt.
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EXT. SPECTRE - DAY We slowly MOVE THROUGH a foreclosure auction to find Edwardwatching. Two very corporate MEN IN SUITS, stick out amongthe bidders.
JENNY (V.O.) Two different corporations were lookingat buying the town, if they could getthe price low enough. One wanted to open a chicken processing plant. The other, a municipal dump. Either way, Spectre would be destroyed.